An evaluation of classification methods for level II land-cover categories in Ohio

Robert C. Frohn; Lin Liu; Richard A. Beck; Navendu Chaudhary; Olimpia Arellano-Neri

doi:10.1117/12.813213

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7 November 2008 An evaluation of classification methods for level II land-cover categories in Ohio

Robert C. Frohn, Lin Liu, Richard A. Beck, Navendu Chaudhary, Olimpia Arellano-Neri

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Proceedings Volume 7147, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Classification of Remote Sensing Images; 71470D (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813213
Event: Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Geo-Simulation and Virtual GIS Environments, 2008, Guangzhou, China

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The purpose of this research was to evaluate six classifiers applied to Landsat-7 data for accuracy of Level II land-cover categories in Ohio. These methods consist of (1) USGS National Land Cover Data; (2) the spectral angle mapper; (3) the maximum likelihood classifier; (4) the maximum likelihood classifier with texture analysis; (5) a recently introduced hybrid artificial neural network; (6) and a recently introduced modified image segmentation and object-oriented processing classifier. The segmentation object-oriented processing (SOOP) classifier outperformed all others with an overall accuracy of 93.8% and Kappa Coefficient of 0.93. SOOP was the only classifier to have by-class producer and user accuracies of 90% or higher for all land-cover categories. A modified artificial neural network (ANN) classifier had the second highest overall accuracy of 87.6% and Kappa of 0.85. The four remaining classifiers had overall accuracies less than 85%. The SOOP classifier was applied to Landsat-7 data to perform a level II land-cover classification for the state of Ohio.

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Robert C. Frohn, Lin Liu, Richard A. Beck, Navendu Chaudhary, and Olimpia Arellano-Neri "An evaluation of classification methods for level II land-cover categories in Ohio", Proc. SPIE 7147, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Classification of Remote Sensing Images, 71470D (7 November 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813213

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